Pirates learn several kinds of skills as they ply the waters of the Caribbean. Many are active skills, such as firing a pistol or using a voodoo doll to heal a mate. Rather than performing an action, passive skills boost a pirate's attributes, allowing them to gain more health, voodoo, damage output, regeneration, attacking speed, accuracy, shooting range etc.

Once learned, passive skills are automatically and permanently in effect. The pirate does NOT have to click the mouse or press a button to use them or to use any specified weapons to activate them.

Increasing skill level[]

For each skill point added to a passive skill, the boost it gives is increased by 100% of the initial bonus.

Level 1: Standard bonus
Level 2: 200%
Level 3: 300%
Level 4: 400%
Level 5: 500%